Kenyan minister apologises after main airport loses power

Kenya’s transport minister apologised to the country late on Friday night after a widespread electricity blackout left passengers at the main airport in Nairobi grappling in darkness.
Power went off in many parts of the country at 9.45 p.m. on Friday, the electricity distribution company Kenya Power said in a statement, attributing the loss to “a system disturbance leading to the loss of bulk power supply”.
Images of stranded passengers sitting in darkness at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) soon surfaced on social media. The airport operator Kenya Airports Authority said that one of its stand-by generators at the facility did not kick in.
It was not immediately clear how the lack of power at the airport, a key gateway for leisure and business travellers into the continent, affected flights.